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more clues please?!!
delightful piece S x
High grade silver, I think it's from the Levant, but not really sure. It has such a satiny patina and wonderful wear. It's like silk on the wrist! I think that the five spikes act like a khamsa. The dots of granulation on the top of each spike has a twisted wire around it, though all are so worn, that it is hard to see this detail....
very nice, we elready see o the foto how smooth it is.
the silk feeling comes when the silver is high grade, this one is more than sterling, could be 950 or more. also, when it is not extrem hammered and worn long time.
this high silver here comes because it is made in an area where there is lot of silver mines and the deal with silver was easy.( the mines are now fonctioning illegaly and some youngs go there every day to get some for sale . it worths for the silver price now )
it is from almost the same place from where comes the nice one i posted last time
this comes from the vicinity of the red sea from south egypt the erythrea.
Worn by arabs, beja and rashaida
Even without touching it, the patina seems soft silk,
I guess that your bracelet hillary is way older that those published hence the differences and the high content of silver......
Still the levant theory was tempting
all in all a very wonderful braceley
I must apologetically confess I had not ever seen this side of the bangle! And it is just wonderful, as is the other side (which I showed on Facebook and which was much liked there, of course). I am sure Alaa's analysis is correct, in all respects. It explains fully why this necklace is "different" from the far more commonly seen Nubian varieties. And much older. A truly great piece, Hillary!
I mean particularly Alaa's most recent (updated) description, which he wrote when discussing the other side!